The Linen Project

Learning by doing

The project's various activities are developed with a view to its broader relevance. Establishing a dynamic environment for research and production, The Linen Project’s learning by doing approach to all stages of flax and linen production unites and highlights the value of our natural, social and cultural resources. The Linen Project seeks to reinstate the economy as a social, ecological and cultural domain, calling new ecosystems into effect by doing so. The Linen Project is committed to identifying, evolving and strengthening socio-economic patterns and behaviours that are rooted in a commoning approach. The project's activities facilitate interactions based on participation, reciprocity and mutuality. The inherent connections between (cultural) heritage, education, agriculture, design, crafts, and the economy, are activated within the context of The Linen Project. A growing awareness of this interdependence sets the exchange of diverse values, knowledge, skills and competencies in motion, generating new insights for all involved and for the evolution of the project itself.

The Linen Stewards

With work from Stewards Heleen Klopper, Maaike Gottschal, Henrike Gootjes, Hans Hutting, Loes Schepens, Marieke van Mieghem, Kelly Konings.